Poll: What Do You Think About Edward Snowden?
Former NSA worker Edward Snowden leaked a torrent of classified information about the NSA's PRISM program and much more to…
Daily Must Reads, August 30, 2013
1. NSA paying U.S. companies for access to communications networks (Washington Post) 2. A guide to Syria's best citizen journalism…
LIST: Where Do Journalism Schools Stand on MOOCs, Online Classes?
How will we teach the next generation of the journalists? Such is the question raised in PBS MediaShift's "Back to…
Mediatwits #92: Journalism, Free Speech Under Attack in the Surveillance State
How can journalists fight the war on journalism, both in the U.S. and abroad? As governments hunt down whistleblowers, leakers…
E-Books & Self-Publishing Roundup, August 29, 2013
1. U.S. judge wants external monitor for Apple in e-books case (Reuters) 2. Taking another look at e-book upstart Kobo…
Daily Must Reads, August 29, 2013
1. What the ESPN/Frontline breakup teaches us about investigative reporting (Poynter) 2. Why Twitter's new Conversations view is a big…
Balancing Work and Study in the MATC Online Master’s Program in Digital Media
College towns have a set of seasons all their own: the quiet shudder of the winter, the frenzied exodus of…
Daily Must Reads, August 28, 2013
1. Syrian Electronic Army responsible for New York Times website attack (The Atlantic Wire) 2. Time Warner Cable TV app…
How to Use D3 on the OpenSpending API
OpenSpending has a built-in set of visualizations -- bubble charts, treemaps, and tables -- which are useful for exploring how…
Can Slow-Moving Universities Adapt Quickly Enough to Teach in the Digital Age?
The start of classes this fall will also bring renewed debate about what journalism and mass communications colleges should teach…